Climate Change

Climate change is a significant and lasting change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns over periods ranging from decades to millions of years. It may be a change in average weather conditions, or in the distribution of weather around the average conditions (i.e., more or fewer extreme weather events). Climate change is caused by factors such as biotic processes, variations in solar radiation received by Earth, plate tectonics, and volcanic eruptions. Certain human activities have also been identified as significant causes of recent climate change, often referred to as "global w ...more

New Releases Tagged "Climate Change"

Kill Billionaire
Under Water
Ruins
The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change
Hafsa's Way
Wild Dark Shore
A Guardian and a Thief
What We Can Know
Gliff
Playground
Dream State
The Light Pirate
The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times
Bewilderment
The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change
Land of Milk and Honey
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Firestorm - The Great Los Angeles Fires and America's New Age of Disaster
Saltcrop
Ruins
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
The Ministry for the Future
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here
All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis
Flight Behavior
The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World
Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change
Earthflown by Frances  WrenLife As We Knew It by Susan Beth PfefferHydrosphere Rising by Philip J. RutherfordArtificial Wisdom by Thomas R. WeaverThe Hurricane Code by James Aura
Climate dystopias
103 books — 171 voters

The Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckThe Four Winds by Kristin HannahThe Dry by Jane HarperDry by Neal ShustermanDune by Frank Patrick Herbert
Drought in Fiction
200 books — 37 voters
Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy KidderPoor Economics by Abhijit V. BanerjeeHalf the Sky by Nicholas D. KristofDead Aid by Dambisa MoyoThe Bottom Billion by Paul Collier
International development
228 books — 217 voters


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